Thread: Herch's Workbook :sleeping:

I have read through all the different LD techniques and am going to try to mix a few together. The DILD and MILD seem to appeal to me the most. Currently I am doing reality checks throughout the day and am trying kingyoshi's ADA- All Day Awareness. Also, the sporadic awareness technique seems to blend well with these. When falling asleep, I focus on previous dreams and contemplate the process while preparing to sleep and eventually awaken. I think I have covered a few different areas here to increase my chances of the ever-elusive LD and perhaps stick with one method that I prefer.

Three or maybe four dreams recalled last night. It is fascinating how when I first wake up I only recall a hint of a dream but as I write the fog lifts and the dream expands. Write it down fast or its gone forever...

I expect the vividness to return to where it was two weeks ago before I took a break from my LD project. I was doing great for about two weeks, then life got stressful and I had to put it on hiatus. Now I feel like I am starting from square 2 again.

One more thing- it is sometimes hard to distinguish between different dreams and different scenes within the same dream. Sometimes I have movie-like dreams that run in sequence. For example, last night was a James Bond type adventure with 3-4 scenes. However, I am unsure if the last part where I went back to my apartment and confronted a squatter (I told myself the mission lasted months) was part of that dream or an entirely new one. Could it be both? Could a second dream pick up where the first left off?

Originally Posted by Herch80

Three or maybe four dreams recalled last night. It is fascinating how when I first wake up I only recall a hint of a dream but as I write the fog lifts and the dream expands. Write it down fast or its gone forever...

You are so right!

Anyway, welcome to the class Herch! You say you had .5 (a half?) a lucid dream before? I'm intrigued!

I expect the vividness to return to where it was two weeks ago before I took a break from my LD project. I was doing great for about two weeks, then life got stressful and I had to put it on hiatus. Now I feel like I am starting from square 2 again.

Happens to the best of us. At least once you start focusing on dreaming again, recall starts getting better and so does chances of inducing LDs (rather than just waiting for them to happen accidentally).

One more thing- it is sometimes hard to distinguish between different dreams and different scenes within the same dream. Sometimes I have movie-like dreams that run in sequence. For example, last night was a James Bond type adventure with 3-4 scenes. However, I am unsure if the last part where I went back to my apartment and confronted a squatter (I told myself the mission lasted months) was part of that dream or an entirely new one. Could it be both? Could a second dream pick up where the first left off?

The answer is yes. This has happened to me in lucid dreams as well as non lucid, where I have a dream that basically picked up where the last one left off, with maybe a few changes here and there. For me, it's just easier to make the distinction when I'm lucid (since I'm more aware of what's going on). When you're nonlucid, dreams don't have to be linear at all, and they can be one big jumble hump of a mess. Those dreams you reaaaally want to write down the moment you wake up. Trying to recall an irrational dream(s) with your rational waking mind seems to get harder and harder with every moment that passes after you wake up. I am guilty of this as well